Intelligent Street Lighting

In this project, we estimated how much energy could be saved yearly by the city of Paris by
adapting the street lighting to the actual traffic.

Context

Numa organized a
series of challenges with the city of Paris.
The challenge I took part in was called Intelligent Street Lighting: in order to save energy,
how can we adapt public lighting to the citizens’ need?. More specificaly the objective was to
measure how much can be saved by dimming the streets lighting in the middle of night when traffic is low.

Paritipating to this challenge were
Bouygues ES,
SFR, EVESA, Quantmetry and Dataiku. The challenge took place over 2 weeks in April 2017.
The results were presented at Paris City Hall in June 2017.

Work done

The first step was to measure the average traffic in the night. We used data provided by
the mobile service prodider SFR: aggregated counts of mobile users by area (IRIS) over time.
Data privacy issues imposed that we use only an aggregated dataset rather than idividual users’
position.

Choosing a dimming scenario. This was done in collaboration with EVESA who operates the public
lighting in Paris. We used a dataset containing all the lamps in Paris. Several criteria were used:

pedistrian-only areas remain fully lit

only certain kinds of lamps can be dimmed (technical limitation)

the lamps are dimmed to 70% of their maximum power during the low-traffic period in the night
(when traffic is lower than 5% of its maximum).